BNP Paribas’s securities services business has appointed Hugues Williamson and Mark Wootton as co-heads of the financial intermediaries & corporates (FI&C) client line in Asia Pacific. Williamson will be responsible for the FI&C client strategy in North Asia and Greater China and the primary contact for broker dealing outsourcing, correspondent banking, cash management and liquidity solutions, execution to custody and third party clearing. Wootton will cover South Asia and Pacific regions with primary responsibility for derivatives & execution clearing, digital, global custody and local custody. They jointly report to Franck Dubois, head of Asia Pacific for securities services, and to Bruno Campenon, global head of the FI&C client line. Williamson is based in Hong Kong and Wootton in Sydney.